⏰ Deadline this Friday!
BeNA Labor Economics Workshop, May 29 in Berlin.
PhD students: submit an abstract or draft by March 27 → workshop@labor-research.net
Guest speakers: Benjamin Arold (Cambridge) & Iris Kesternich (Hamburg)
Early-stage work welcome!
#LaborEcon #EconTwitter #PhD #Workshop
that work is harder to step away from, especially as organizational expectations for speed and responsiveness rise."
#LaborEcon
orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/116048241413469185 5/5
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce...
“AI introduced a new rhythm in which workers managed several active threads at once: manually writing code while AI generated an alternative version, running multiple agents in parallel, or […]
… firms that hire more experienced workers optimally respond by increasing their capital stock per worker
… strategic hiring of older workers drives capital deepening through #productivity complementarity"
#LaborEcon #wages
orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/115911647314064203 3/3
#EconSky
David Autor on "How Is #AI Shaping the Future of #Work?" issues.org/david-autor-economist-ai...
#LaborEcon #economics
orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/115906940061303887
David Autor on "How Is #AI Shaping the Future of #Work?" issues.org/david-autor-economist-ai...
#LaborEcon #economics
test scores as the current class. Such an admissions policy would increase the share of students attending Ivy-Plus colleges from the bottom 95% of the parental income distribution by 8.8 percentage points"
#LaborEcon #discrimination
orig 3/4
of work-life balance, #autonomy, #recruitment and reducing turnover, can be very real."
#wfh #4dayWeek #laborEcon
orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/115570491019000485 3/3
Remote professionals are quiet quitting Fridays …could open the door to a 4-day work week
fortune.com/2025/11/17/remote-hybrid...
"From 2019 to 2024, the average number of minutes worked on Fridays fell by about 90 minutes in jobs that can be done from […]
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My work shows that reducing everyday barriers, like transportation, can transform access to work and community life.
I am completing my PhD in May 2026 & am excited to connect about opportunities to continue this work! 6/6 #EconJobMarket #LaborEcon #DisabilityEconomics
melissa-gentry.github.io
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documented in previous work, but also from managerial incentives that conventional antitrust policies are ill-equipped to address."
#LaborEcon #wages #IndustrialOrganization
orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/115419847876268365 4/4
The Labor Market Consequences of Acquisitions d.repec.org/n
"… the consequences of corporate acquisitions for workers and find that they are far from neutral: earnings decline through both job displacement and wage cuts among stayers from target firms […]
dynamics."
#LaborEcon #oja
orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/115271375693795445 5/5
employment.
… Findings highlight the risks of early #specialisation and benefits of aligning #education with students' interests at a suitable stage."
#LaborEcon #vocationalTraining #wages
orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/115271322408703526 5/5
Output Fluctuations and Firm #Recruitment Effort d.repec.org/n
"… correlations between output growth and job advertisement posting are weak, which might seem at odds with theoretical predictions. Further analysis, however, reveals that the relationship […]
Closing the gap between vocational and general #education? Evidence from University Technical Colleges in England eprints.lse.ac.uk/128193/7/jhr.0223-12768R...
"For students who enter at the non-conventional transition age 14, UTCs have a large detrimental effect on the probability […]
that may occur with longer tenure."
#LaborEcon #BehavioralEconomics #SocialTies #ethics
orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/115265019823620975 3/3
The Unequal Diffusion of Honesty and Dishonesty in Workplace Networks d.repec.org/n
"… dishonest behavior diffuses while honest behavior does not.
The diffusion of dishonest behavior is best explained by information transmission
… screening for […]
teacher effects but also through implicit behaviors that enhance students' willingness to pursue post-secondary studies in the same fields. "
#LaborEcon
orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/115260045641638789 4/4
The Effect of Teachers’ #CognitiveSkills on Students' Educational Achievements d.repec.org/n
"… teachers' cognitive abilities—mainly those measured by #math matriculation scores—have clear and positive effects on both students' short-term matriculation […]
controlling for sector, age, and other factors."
#LaborEcon #wages #gpg
Note to authors: Do not report ten decimal places if your margin of error exceeds 0.1. #EconSky
orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/114721815262016331 2/2
Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? An Investigation into Gender Differences in the Impact of Switching Jobs on Earnings
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.09791
"… whilst job switching does generally lead to higher earnings growth, men tend to benefit to a greater extent than women, even after […]
emergency crisis responses – dwarf those of investing in universal financial well-being"
#LaborEcon #economicPolicy #EconSky
orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/114717925497213529 5/5
Work Is Not Well-Being www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/development-p...
"Policymakers and the development community now confront an urgent choice: either watch the gulf between #work and […]
BeNA is on Bluesky! Since 2004, we’ve been connecting early-career labor economists in and around #Berlin. Follow us to stay up to date with the network and our events! #BeNA #laborEcon #econsky
challenges that need to be considered when analysing and interpreting working time preferences."
#LaborEcon #ExperimentalEcon #EconSky
orig https://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/114416245016685132 3/3
Peer pressure or personal choice? How peer working hours shape individual working hours preferences d.repec.org/n
"We show that colleagues’ working hours causally affect working hours preferences. The reasons given by the respondents for choosing the […]
🎙️ Excited to present w/ Prof. François Maniquet at the 2nd Welfare & Policy Conf. in Bordeaux (May 5–6)!
📄 Welfare, Jobs & Optimal Redistribution: Bridging Discrete Choice & Income Tax Theory
Hosted by WAP + HOPE @bsebordeaux.bsky.social
🔗 wapsociety.org/event/wap2
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